Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Wealthy Bridegroom Goes Crazy After Wedding South Bend Man Kills Sweetheart and Self—Six Men Held on Charge of Robbing Railroad. Four officers and a physician were summoned to care for George W. Hattie, who was roaming the streets of Goshen, a raving maniac and threatening to end his life on being accused by his bride of a day, Dr. Anna G. Kauffman, of having deceived her by saying he had not made a transfer of his property. It was found that a deed was just placed on record which had been executed April 10, conveying his hotel building, business block and two houses valued at more than $36,000 to his three children, Mrs. W. W. Poyser, Mrs. Otis T. Fuller and John E. Hattie, formerly of Chicago, the landlord of the Hotel Hattie. The son placed the deed on record, after learning of his father’s secret wedding. The real purpose of such duplicity on the part of the groom is not yet clear. He is now under care of physicians and is guarded to prevent his carrying out the threat to kill himself. Couple Die Together. John W. ('hurry. 31 years old. a carpenter, shot nnd killed his sweetheart, Susanne Kecskemet!. aged Hi, in South Bend, and then killed himself with the same revolver. Churry and the girl, with her parents, all apparently in good humor, sat—on the porch until midnight. Then the parents retired. About fifteen minutes later the mother heard three shots. She gave the • matter little thought, and went to sleep. At 2 o'clock she awoke, and looking out saw the bodies of her daughter and Churry lying on the ground. The couple had evidently planned to die together. The girl had laid her best dress and underclothing on a chair in the parlor, arid the man Was attired in his best clothes. No motive for the crime is known. Accused of Looting Cars. Chief Detective Rank of the Lake Shore road has arrested six employes of the company at La Porte-on a charge of robbing Lake Shore freight cars. The six -men are believed to be members of a gang which has been plundering ears between Chicago and Cleveland for years. The company lias lost thousands of dollars within that period. Four of the six men were employed as freight handler* on the road. The plunder was disposed of in Chicago and Cleveland. Killed in Queer Accilent. Levi Sherwood, a Metamora farmer, is dead and his son, Charles, aged 12, probably fatally wounded as the result of a peculiar accident. Hawks had been killing Sherwood’s chickens and while plowing he carried a gun. The boy walked behind. The plow struck a root and the gun was discharged. Sherwood's arm was lacerated and he bled to death. The boy was severely wounded in the abdomen. Train Kills Aged Couple, Adam Shaffer and his wife, Imtli octogenarians, who resided a few miles north of Dublin, were killed by a Panhandle accommodation train on crossing at New, Castle. They raced with the train to make the crossing first, but with a speed of fifty miles an hour the train outdistanced them and they were ground beneath the wheels of the engine. Within Our Borders. New Albany chickens are getting fat on 17-year locusts. I»uis Lapsey was killed by a J., M. & I. train at Seymour. The Anderson tinplate mill will not shut down this summer. Ix>uis Sinead, a young farmer, Washington, was killed by a falling tree. Huntington decided to vote $112,000 subsidy to the D., U. & 11. Railroad. At Evansville Fred Bloomer was fined SSO for capturing and caging two redbirds. Miss Alice Lyle has been elected queeu of the coming Elks' carnival at Columbus. Robbers took S2OO worth of goods from <’. H. Thompson’s jewelry store, Greensburg. Marvin Hart, aged 40, and his son, aged 17, were killed by lightning near Boonville. Ira Griffith, superintendent of the Briar Hill mine, was struck by lightning and killed at Brazil. Wilbur Jones was nearly drowned while rescuing Miss Tina Weber at Muncie. Friends pulled tbe couple out. David Salmon of Shoals killed his wife, from whom he had separated, and then shot himself through the heart, dying instantly. Henry Smith pleaded guilty to th* charge of stealing a span of mules from Renry Ratts of Ashland township and was given an indeterminate sentence in the Jeffersonville reformatory . A love affair begun nearly sixty years ago culminated in Lebanon in the elopement aud marriage of Rev. Abraham C. Abbett of Chicago, aged 77, and Mrs. Eliza J. Mitchell of Amity, aged 75. The sentence of Isaac Sloan, sent to prison at Michigan City for life in 1895 from Kentucky for killing a secret service agent, was commuted to ten years by President Roosevelt. Allowing for good time, Sloan will be released July 29. He is the last federal convict save one in the Indiana State prison. John W. Odka and Frank Bartz of of Michigan City became involved in an affray. Odka stabbed Bartz in the head and then jumped on him with his feet and kicked him until he thought the life of his victim was extinct. He held men who sought to Interfere at bay with a revolver and made his escape. Pierce Carr, 17, accidentally shot and killed his companion, Oscar Myrick, Northfield. Marion Wright and her son, aged 17, living near Folsomvillc, were killed by lightning. They were in a wagon returning from the field. , The police of Indiana cities nnd towns have been asked to look for Fred Warner, an unibrelln peddler, whose home Is in Elkhart. Warner's friends arc seeking him in nn effort to put him in possession of a fortune estimated at $75,000 which has been left him by relative* at Greenville, Mich.